The garden in the machine : a field guide to independent films about place /
The Garden in the Machine explores the evocations of place, and particularly American place, that have become so central to the representational and narrative strategies of alternative and mainstream film and video. Scott MacDonald contextualizes his discussion with a wide-ranging and deeply informe...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2001.
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| Series: | ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Summary: | The Garden in the Machine explores the evocations of place, and particularly American place, that have become so central to the representational and narrative strategies of alternative and mainstream film and video. Scott MacDonald contextualizes his discussion with a wide-ranging and deeply informed analysis of the depiction of place in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, painting, and photography. Accessible and engaging, this book examines the manner in which these films represent nature and landscape in particular, and location in general. It offers us both new readings of the fi. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 461 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-446) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520926455 0520926455 9780520227385 0520227387 128049204X 9781280492044 9786613587275 6613587273 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |